MovieChat Forums > (500) Days of Summer (2009) Discussion > Change this one tiny detail and it chang...

Change this one tiny detail and it changes the whole tone *SPOILER*


If the hot interviewee girl at the end had been ugly, the whole tone of resolve would have changed dramatically. Falling in lust can play a big part to falling in love.

reply

OBVIOUSLY.

Also if the girl at the end had be ugly, then that scene wouldnt be in the movie and instead he would have found the next hot girl somewhere else

reply

...and if a tailed piano fell on Tom just before entering the interview building, the whole tone (sic) of resolve would have changed even more dramatically. Not?

What I fail to see is what you intended to say with that statement of yours.

Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past

reply

The point is that the end is optimistic and all "aww he found a new girlfriend to fall in love with" but if the girl was ugly, nobody would suspect that he would or could (how could a celebrity be expected to fall in love with someone with that condition!) fall in love with her.

And I really really hoped I wouldn't die

reply

...then that's the epitome of the obvious (that "the end is optimistic").
He used the paradigm in a sense as if there was actually a chance that "the girl could be ugly". The girl would be whatever the director would have wanted her to be (in order to properly serve the given script).
In other words, I think it was totally pointless of the thread starter to point out that "if we change a tiny detail". The tiny detail would have never changed itself though. And this wasn't real life, in order for us to ponder "imagine if...", like, say "if you hadn't been to that party that day you wouldn't have met your future wife".
In conclusion : There's no need to fantasize about the "what if she was ugly" option. She would have never been, 'cause the writer didn't intend for other but make us think "well here's a good looking girl. Time to move on. Will Tom move on, without repeating the mistakes of the past too? Choice is his. Will this be the fine girl for him? Only time will tell" etc - etc....

Get me?

Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past

reply

I understand that the statement is asinine I'm just explaining the OP is some feminist or something who thinks women are just seen as objects and have to be pretty to be respected

And I really really hoped I wouldn't die

reply